Gi-Go: How Museveni family choked quality and promoted ‘castesm’ in education system in Uganda
One thing must be emphasised. It is under the sovereign jurisdiction of the First Family in the education system that massification, privatisation, commercialization, marketisation and stratification of education has occurred. In this article, I have actually been concerned with esterification of education as a function of the First Family’s choices in education and their consequences on Ugandan society in the short, medium and long-term.
First degree murder suspect wanted in US breaches security at Nairobi police station, escapes
Kangethe, 40, had been detained pending a ruling on whether he should be extradited to face a first-degree murder charge in connection with the death of Margaret Mbitu on October 31, 2023.
Unhappy Kenya media giants preparing to take government to court over advertising revenue
The Daily Nation, the Standard, and Mediamax’s People Daily, which had previously co-distributed MyGov, all bid for the new contract, quoting prices between two to three times higher, according to a government source.
Residents of eastern DR Congo flee fearing M23 rebels are on verge of taking control of Goma
Carrying bedrolls, babies and other belongings, hundreds of people marched in the heat along a narrow roadway clogged with banged-up trucks and vans, in flight once again from the unrest that has gripped eastern Congo for decades.
Central bank boss admits exchange rate overshot equilibrium but sure Kenya will repay $2b bond
Kenya has received disbursements totalling just over $1 billion in the last two months and expects to get another $1.5 billion from the World Bank between March and May, he said.
Miscellany: Uganda is a country of diversities waiting to be harnessed for development
Agreeing to agree and to disagree can add value to leadership and governance as well as development, transformation and progress of a country. It can also contribute to genuine political development of the leaders and the led, the governors and the governed.
Ethiopia PM Ahmed rules out war with Somalia over port access deal with breakaway Somaliland
The nave base deal has rattled Somalia, which asserts that Somaliland is part of Somalia. Somalia’s president has suggested he is ready to go to war with Ethiopia to prevent it from building a port there. But addressing lawmakers on Tuesday, Abiy said he had “no intention” of going to war with Somalia.
Human-wildlife conflict in focus as hyena kills one, injures two people outside university in Kenya
Hyena attacks have become increasingly frequent on the outskirts of Nairobi, prompting KWS to release guidelines on how to react when confronted by the animals. “If faced with a hyena, do not move away until it does and continue facing its direction. Be loud, look aggressive and appear frightening to deter the hyena,” the KWS advises.
Regimes teeming with freeloaders like Uganda’s often birth morally and culturally ‘unidentified flying objects’
In Uganda we the elderly are watching as false economic schemes such as Myooga and Parish Development Model, based on giving “money bonanzas” to a few individuals in our communities in the hope that if they become rich their richness and prosperity will flow downward to us to benefit the rest of the community.
UN force steps up ground and aerial patrols in Abyei to deter further killings after weekend of mayhem
An armoured personnel carrier came under heavy fire during an ambush and UN ‘blue helmets’ at a base in Marial Achak were fired upon before the attackers were repelled. The bloodshed came a week after more than 50 people, including two UN peacekeepers, were killed in similar attacks on civilians over land disputes.
